Private Papers of T A Titherington

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Extensive collection of papers relating to his Second World War service with the Royal Corps of Signals, as a prisoner of war in the Far East following the fall of Singapore in February 1942, and his postwar campaigning on behalf of former Far East POWs, comprising: nominal rolls of (mainly British) POWs held in the Kinkaseki mining camp on Formosa (Taiwan); Titherington’s military service documents and postcards written by him to his family from the Kinkaseki camp; official report on the Kinkaseki and Kukutsu camps on Formosa; wartime documents and postwar memoirs of Far East POWs given to Titherington after the war in his capacity as founder and president of the Japanese Labour Camp Survivors’ Association (JLCSA); documents regarding the activities of Titherington and the JLCSA in campaigning for a formal apology and compensation from the Japanese government for the sufferings inflicted on Far East POWs during the war; draft typescript of Titherington’s subsequently published memoir 'Kinkaseki: One Day at a Time' and another unpublished typescript; substantial collection of associated photographs and miscellaneous documents [see itemised listing].